Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

All’s quiet around here just people panic buying stuff no Coronavirus in Lenawee County yet grant it we only have around 20000 people here.

 

Just delivered to Sysco in Denver and their freezers are full of chicken and eggs because all the restaurants closed. Drivers on reduced hours. Guard shack talking like they expect to get laid off.

 

And grocery stores warehouses are empty.
Delivered Sunday night in OKC, on the fresh side the yard guy said they normally 25-30 trucks a night, said they had 175 trucks that night and still can’t keep their stores stocked.

 

I was in the Kingsport Walmart yesterday and there was no hamburger or chicken. The only water they had was the purified bottled. No spring bottled or any type of jugs of water. Their can goods isle was almost empty, they didn't have any mac-n-cheese or most flavors of rice-a-roni.

 

In MI, there’s plenty of spring water, just no purified.

 

I'll have to check it out while I am up here. Deliver in central MI in the morning. Stopped in Dexter at the T/A, went in to get a togo of blackened chicken, and see that they have a 5 person capacity for any of the carryout food. Expecting to see armed Nation Guard troops next doing crowd control.

 

Delivered to a Walmart DC yesterday morning. They have spread their inbound trucks out over the entire day. They had at least 50 refer already loaded and ready to go to the stores. Fastest I have ever gotten in and out of Walmart hour and a half.

 

I read that they are working on a plan to have the delivering trucks route directly to the stores to save time. You back in, and your product goes right to the shelves. Saves a day, but would kinda screw the Walmart drivers unless they're doing the same thing

 

I can see toilet paper, water and other large bulk items. Sams Club already does that but the other stuff like cereal can foods that would be kind of hard.

 

Just put several stores worth of products on 1 trailer. A company I use to work for years ago would do Del Monte can goods and P&G loads that way to Publix stores in the southeast a couple times a year. Which kinda sucked sometimes because not all Publix stores had ample docks for live unloads. Some had hydraulic plates in the middle of the back driveway and manual pallet jacks which made pallets of veggies fun to move.